Who is Dion Dublin and what football teams did he play for?
DION Dublin is the former pro footballer, turned popular TV personality.
The 53-year-old first made a name for himself as a footballer in the Premier League for Manchester United in 1993.
Who is Dion Dublin?
Dion Dublin is one of the few people who can claim to be a successful footballer and a regular presence on daytime television.
Born in Leicester on April 22, 1969, he was capped four times for England during his playing days.
An amateur percussionist, he invented a percussion instrument called The Dube - a form of cajon, while coming to the end of his football career at Norwich.
In July 2021, Dublin was appointed as a club director at former club Cambridge United.
What football teams did Dion Dublin play for?
In a superb career at the top level of English football, he earned a move to Manchester United in 1992 from lowly Cambridge United.
A broken leg meant a scuppered time under Sir Alex Ferguson during which time the club signed the one and only Eric Cantona, so a move to Coventry followed in 1994.
A prolific spell there followed, and then he moved to Aston Villa in 1998 in a year he won four England caps under Glenn Hoddle.
In 2004 he moved to Leicester, by which time he was often playing in defence rather than attack - and spells at Celtic and Norwich followed before his career finished having scored 111 Premier League goals.
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What TV shows does Dion Dublin host?
After playing football, Dublin worked in the media as a pundit, commentator and football phone-in presenter on Sky and the BBC.
But in 2015, he became the beneficiary of a BBC Diversity Creative Talent Fund grant for training up promising future TV presenters and began presenting Homes Under the Hammer that year, alongside Martin Roberts and then-host Lucy Alexander.
Alexander was replaced in May 2017 by former Sun journalist Martel Maxwell.
Dublin received training for his new role, worth up to £50,000, from a BBC fund to boost ethnic minorities — despite his big-money football career.